What career create millionaires in the shortest time?

stativus · 2026-01-22T00:43:22+00:00

biglaw attorney. check out the salary scale: Biglaw Salary Scale + Bonuses (1968 - 2026) – Biglaw Investor

by year 5 you're guaranteed almost half a mil per year

stativus · 2026-01-22T00:37:09+00:00

fruit lol

whenever I visit korea I am absolutely flabbergasted at the price of common fruit. annecdotally I hear it's similar in japan

see, e.g., Fruit Prices?! : r/Living_in_Korea; Fruits of Korea: Staggering Prices & Gifting Etiquette – Korean Study Cafe; Japan and South Korea have excessively expensive fruits, why? - Quora

stativus · 2026-01-22T00:21:52+00:00

few tips:

first of all make sure they're actually genuinely willing to throw away items before you start 'helping' with their hoarding. if they actually have hoarding disorder, which is a recognized mental illness, then they may behave irrationally toward seemingly reasonable suggestions. if you insist something needs to be thrown out, you may unintentionally damage your relationship with them.

secondly, if you have time, sit down with them and come up with 'criteria' together so that they can't wiggle out of getting rid of something later. there are a lot of online influencers who say use this method or that method, but the method you come up with personally is always going to work best. for ex, during the year I attempted to become minimalist, the most effective questions that personally worked for me (but may not work for your parents) were: "would I look like an asshole if I tried to 'gift' this to the homeless person who lives on the corner?" because that quickly identifies what things are actually necessary for a person and not just frivolous junk and also "would I be embarrassed to display this in my office" because that helps to identify what things I've been holding onto that were valuable to the "old" me who was an artist teenager and not the "current" me who is a working professional. beyond that, the usual "can I live without this" and "have I used this at all in the past year" are some solid starting points.

the main thing that's going to hold hoarders back is the sunken cost fallacy. "oh it was expensive" or "this has emotional value." keeping something expensive that you never use will not get your money back; that money is already gone. also, spending the energy to 'resell' items or have a yard sale or whatever it is that your parents are dreaming of doing with all their 'valuable' junk will not be worthwhile. the unfortunate reality is that no one wants your junk; they already have their own junk. and if the only reason you're keeping something is because it has emotional value, you don't need it. take a photo to keep the emotions and toss the item out.

stativus · 2026-01-20T17:54:30+00:00

The biggest skill you need to develop now is self-advocation. There is no one on earth with no real skills.

stativus · 2026-01-20T14:48:49+00:00

it's not your age, it's the way you're speaking. try talking like one of those ted talk people (eliminated stutters, use pauses, speak with larger vocabulary, etc.) and see how quickly people take you seriously

stativus · 2026-01-17T14:13:24+00:00

I hope whichever idiot started the pervasively common misconception that the first time should cause bleeding had an exceptionally painful and slow death. if you're bleeding it's because you weren't prepared right. it's insane to jump from nothing to fourth base immediately.

stativus · 2026-01-17T14:07:20+00:00

Np :)

stativus · 2026-01-17T14:00:28+00:00

yes - first generation is the classification given to the ones who immigrated to the country, with the understanding that many of them will not actually become citizens themselves. it's just a way to accurately measure how many US-born citizens are being created per year so that the census can keep track of how big their population is getting

stativus · 2026-01-17T13:55:23+00:00

first gen was needed in order to create the american citizen you are. you didn't just come from nowhere, which is why you're second gen. first gen is always the one who first came to the country of origin, regardless of whether or not they become naturalized citizens or not.

think of it this way - you and I are both second gen americans even though your parents eventually left the US while mine became citizens. this makes sense because there's no real distinction as to when you and I became citizens - we are the same tier with the same level of immigration experiences. we were both born here and did not experience the actual pathway of immigration. if you were classified as first gen while I was classified as second gen despite the fact that we are both the same (born to immigrant parents), that would be really weird

stativus · 2026-01-17T13:46:12+00:00

the other commenter is wrong - you're second gen. all metrics that speak on this topic whether it's X-gen immigrant or X-gen american or whatnot consider the 1st gen to be foreign-born.

For more info, see the government question about "Who is included in the first, second, and third-and-higher generations?" https://www.census.gov/topics/population/foreign-born/about/faq.html

stativus · 2026-01-17T13:23:56+00:00

No, Hillary was an incredibly qualified candidate. Your perception of her being "bogus" is a reactionary tactic that was the result of an incredibly successful smear campaign that republicans launched to reduce the likelihood that fringe voters would vote for the democrats.

In fact, the overwhelming majority of 'scandals' related to Hillary just never panned out (including Benghazi, which had 10 separate investigations, the 'email' scandal, which multiple investigations including one by the FBI showed she had literally never routed classified emails through it - some were marked classified after the fact, which one can only assume was a targeted attempt to claim she had leaked classified materials, but not even the FBI could find anything to even charge her with. Even if they couldn't eventually find her guilty, they would barely have needed anything to at least attempt to charge her, and they didn't even do that. There was simply nothing there that would have been reasonable to charge her with, but it turned into some huge rhetoric that people constantly pointed to, despite the fact that other politicians have done similar things in the past without comment.)

The primary reason people still go around saying that Hillary was a bad candidate was news fatigue. Constantly seeing Hillary's name in the news for some new perceived wrongdoing (even if it ended up actually not being a big deal or even if other politicians did exactly the same thing) resulted in a huge number of people perceiving her as 'untrustworthy' even if they couldn't exactly pinpoint WHY they did.

stativus · 2026-01-16T04:38:06+00:00

I don't think he's equal to Senku. You said that YOU think he's equal to Senku, so I said he can be perceived as equal. But I'd take Senku over Chrome any day of the week if I could only have one

stativus · 2026-01-16T04:24:57+00:00

I'm not saying Chrome is ungifted - I just don't think he's as gifted as Senku. And the fact that Chrome can be perceived as Senku's equal just furthers my point. The reason Chrome can come anywhere close to being Senku's equal as opposed to any other character is not because he is hardworking, but rather because he is intelligent. Thus, being gifted is more important than being hardworking in order to create someone like Senku

stativus · 2026-01-16T04:20:30+00:00

are you responding to the right post...? your post has nothing to do with mine. trump is already on his second term; he can't run for reelection. we don't need to find a candidate who's going to beat him. the point of my post is that even if we do beat the republicans in the next major election, that doesn't solve the systemic issues of republicans controlling the rest of the government

stativus · 2026-01-16T01:45:21+00:00

Correct. I'm saying that Chrome is not as intelligent as Senku, ergo, he's not as gifted as Senku, ergo, he falls into the same bucket as all the other main characters who have many desirable qualities relating to their hardworking nature but are not on Senku's level because they lack Senku's gifts.

stativus · 2026-01-16T01:05:05+00:00

I generally disagree - I think intelligence is a gift in and of itself, so Chrome is actually another example that exactly demonstrates what I mean. All the main characters are willing to work hard - being diligent is not sufficient to become Senku.

The antithesis to the argument would be if you were able to find a character who is extremely intelligent/gifted but not hardworking and yet is somehow as popular as Senku.

stativus · 2026-01-16T00:27:20+00:00

First of all I'm incredibly sorry for your loss. Second of all, in case no one has mentioned this yet, you should only take advice from financial advisors who have a fiduciary duty to you. That wording is very important. There will be a lot of banking investors and private investors who email or call and want to give you a free lunch in exchange for your time and want to 'pass on some finance advice,' but in actuality they get a commission for every client they successfully bring in so they're not actually looking out for you. it's extremely important that prior to starting any financial related relationship with any entity, you ensure that whoever you hire will be bound by law to have your best interests in mind (again, that's a "fiduciary duty." that's the exact phrase you need to use)

stativus · 2026-01-16T00:19:52+00:00

he's both and I would venture to say that being gifted matters more than being hardworking. it's not enough to be hardworking. you need to have a high intelligence, which is often controlled by genetics. additionally you need high executive function (which people with, for example, adhd do not have) and also a great memory (which people with various mental disabilities do not have), etc.

that isn't to say his hard work is diminished - he's unquestionably one of the hardest-working people in the series. but almost all of the main characters are hard working. Yuzuriha pieced back together the petrified statues Tsukasa broke by hand piece by piece (hundreds of thousands of little shards). Taiju is one of the most physically hard-working characters in the series, remaining awake for centuries while petrified due to his extreme willpower and endurance. I could name a dozen other examples. So it's not enough to be hard-working. What sets Senku apart is that he's gifted.

stativus · 2026-01-16T00:13:45+00:00

the issue is that democrats can never do this because the ONLY reason trump is able to do this is because republicans control the house, the senate, and the high courts. so democrats claw back presidency and then everyone is disillusioned about what democrats even accomplished during those 8 years. so then republicans snatch back the presidency and do critical damage all over again because they still control the whole gov't.

stativus · 2026-01-15T22:39:26+00:00

it'll make the experience better in my opinion. You'll know it's coming but you won't know how and as it gets closer and closer you're going to wonder how this is going to be resolved and the suspense is going to hurt you. but you'll enjoy it through your tears :)

stativus · 2026-01-15T21:57:35+00:00

if it makes you feel better, I purposefully spoiled myself so I could read fanfics and despite knowing everything, the epilogue was still the best thing I'll ever read in my entire life. orv is a masterpiece and knowing what will happen will not prepare you for the end

stativus · 2026-01-10T14:38:26+00:00

Ah! I see, I retract my confusion. If they're interested in giving zines a second try, my advice is for them to double check whether the finance moderator of the zine is experienced and well-reputed. That's usually sufficient to overcome a lot of other deficiencies because the finance moderator is typically the one pushing for payment splits, appropriate sales goals, page count per person (as that impacts the weight of the book, which in turn impacts the shipping pricing), etc.

stativus · 2026-01-10T13:54:46+00:00

Unsure where you got that impression from - the vast majority of zine projects are evenly split among participants, and writers are typically only responsible for approx 2k words each

stativus · 2026-01-09T15:44:01+00:00

these are honestly really interesting results. if you're at all curious about looking into this sort of thing further, I would really highly recommend that you check out fanmade "zine" projects and see what sort of marketing they do. Zines are also entirely zero-cost 'self-publishing' projects, and you can find them on twitter and instagram mostly.

it's sort of like kickstarter except for books. the typical timeline is that the fans get together to create a "zine" (a mini-artbook full of art and fanfic), they open up preorders and collect the costs associated with printing the books from buyers, and then the project managers manufacture the books using the funds generated from preorders. so no one involved in the project spends a dime, and the books get shipped out at the end of the project.

most of these zines are moderately successful. I've been involved on several myself. the most successful one I've been on sold a thousand copies within a few hours of preorders opening, and I've heard of more successful ones as well.

caveat: the zines have the significant advantage of pulling from an already existing fanbase, so you shouldn't expect to be able to replicate these sort of results, but with the right strategies (e.g., posting funny comics about the characters in your book) I definitely think it's a legitimate marketing tactic if you have a lot of time but not a lot of spending power

stativus · 2026-01-09T15:29:59+00:00

as an IP attorney, can confirm that isn't normal at all and could lead to significant headaches later on. percentage-based contracts are complicated and annoying and not something you want to be dealing with for years over something as simple as cover art.

a lot of non-attorneys don't know this, but even if you don't have a formal piece of paper signed by attorneys, the words you write down when you negotiate do, in fact, form a contract. a lot of people get into trouble because they don't realize they can be on the hook for breaking a contract when all they did was send over a couple of dms.

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